Talk to me about feeding grass nuts.

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I currently have my 2 lads on mollichaff veteran (which they love even though neither of them are veterans :D), an own brand conditioning cube, micronised linseed & pink powder.
Neither are particularly good doers, in moderate work & out 24/7 on decent grass.
I was wondering about knocking the conditioning cube on the head & replacing with soaked grass nuts.
This would definitely reduce my feed bills & reading some info should help keep weight on them.
Any experience/thoughts?
 
If they are the ones that look like bit conditioning nut but green then they are ace, my YO feed her stallion them and they make a nice mash and feeds some of her youngstock them too.
 
I've used them in the past, the effect is pretty much the same as good grazing ime. I would say though regardless of what the bag says to soak for 5 mins first, something a vet & feed merchant have also told me.
Mine goes loopy on pony nuts & other supposedly non heating feeds unless in heavy work, but grass nuts are one of the few feeds that don't have that effect. Baileys outshine is the other that doesn't send her silly, but quite costly, luckily she's a good doer who's only ever needed feed for work apart from the odd occasion.
 
I use them all the time and have reccommend them to several of my friends, they are great, cheap to buy, last for ages and horses love them. Always soak them, they expand big time, I would rather they expanded in the bucket rather than my horses stomach :D :D
 
vieshot said:
Love them, feed soaked grass nuts to everything :-)
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So do we.

Our 30 yr old cob mare used to be a good doer and didn't need any hard feed at all but now we need to maintain her weight.
We give her one feed daily of soaked grassnuts with dried grass (Graze-on) chaff with linseed oil and soaked speedibeet. Although she obviously costs us more to feed than the others put together atm this is a very effective and inexpensive feed, which she loves.
 
Another vote for grass nuts...although (just to throw a spanner in the works) have you thought about trying Allen & Page Fast Fibre? Just a thought :D
 
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